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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 2003 04:32:25 -0400
From:      parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
To:        Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is portsdb -U broken again?
Message-ID:  <20030602083225.GB1394@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1>

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in message <5.2.0.9.0.20030602144124.009fb6e0@127.0.0.1>,
wrote Roger Merritt thusly...
>
> 'portsdb -U' ... runs about forty minutes to an hour, reports
> a couple of errors (telling me "" does not exist and the packing
> list is incomplete), and then reboots with "Signal 12, Page Fault
> in Kernel Mode (page not found)".
> 
> The same thing happens when I try to run 'make index', but I can
> run 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' ok.

Consider that index making (or "make describe") is CPU & disk
intensive work; 'portsdb -u' and 'pkgdb -F' are nothing in
comparison.

Hardware problems perhaps?


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